New Trend Magazine
(News and Views)
Night Curfew Imposed on Cincinnati, Ohio
Andy Rooney's Insulting Remarks about the Qur'an
Massive Indonesian Demonstration Supports Osama bin Laden
Roots of anti-Taliban Propaganda about Afghan Women Re-visited
{Following the acquittal of a police officer who killed an unarmed
Black
youth, there were demonstrations by the Black community in Cincinnati,
Ohio,
including clashes with police. As a result, tonight Cincinnati has once
again
been placed under night curfew.}
{Our reporter's comment: The Bush administration cannot provide justice
to
the people of America but wants to provide "infinite justice" (now
something
"freedom" to the Muslims of the world)}
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Subj: Andy Rooney on "Imus in the Morning" about the Book sacred to
all
Muslims
Date: 01-09-28 00:35:34 EDT
From: KSidd37398@aol.com
To: news@msnbc.com
Producer MSNBC
(news@msnbc.com)
Dear Producer
Today (September 27), on "Imus in the Morning", 60 Minutes' funny man
Andy
Rooney made insulting remarks about the "koran" (the holy Qur'an), the
book
which is sacred to 1.2 billion Muslims of the world, including 7
million in
the U.S..
Rooney asked Imus:"Have you read the koran? Read it. You'll be
shocked!"
While Rooney went through a series of innuendoes and trivialities about
the
"koran", your screen showed Muslims prostrating in various mosques
wearing
Arab/Pakistani clothes. (The point was: look at those funny people!)
It was obvious that MSNBC was involved in sacrilege: denigrating and
joking
about the most sacred source of Islam, dear to the heart of every
Muslim.
It bothers me that your station claims, along with President Bush, that
the
war being waged is not against Islam but against "terrorism." If that
is
true, how can you be so flippant about a Book which is sacred to the
ENTIRE
Muslim world?
The Qur'an ("koran"), does contain numerous verses calling on Muslims
to
resist oppression, to fight in self-defense and to defeat the powers of
arrogance and exploitation. Quite probably Rooney discovered these
verses and
was duly "shocked."
You owe the Muslim community an apology. The Qur'an ("koran") is part
of
Islamic life in America. It is venerated even by Muslims who love
America.
Your propaganda will help Muslims to understand that the real war is
not
against "terrorism" but against Islam.
Sincerely
Kaukab Siddique, M.A., Ph.D
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INDONESIA: There have been massive demonstrations in Indonesia against
the
United States (Sept.27) and in support of Osama bin Laden.
Demonstrators
burned American and Israeli flags. There were nearly 500,000 Muslims in
the
streets chanting slogans against America. {MSNBC reported these as
100,000.}
It is ironic that America's puppet in Indonesia, Ms. Megaputri, was the
first
to visit the White House after Sept. 11 and was used to propagate the
idea
that Muslims do not support Mujahid Osama.
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Pakistan: The Pakistani ruler today organized "demonstrations" of his
own to
show support for his sell-out to America, in the name of "Solidarity."
In
some cities, school children were bused to the "demonstration."
More significantly, the renegade group known as MQM held a
demonstration in
Karachi, said to be more than ten thousand strong and condemned
"religious
extremists." The gathering was addressed by phone from London by
renegade
leader Altaf Hussain. Observers say, the gathering is seen as a signal
from
"Great" Britain that Pakistan will be hit from within. The daily Dawn,
(known
to Muslims as Pakistan's "jewish" paper) tried to play up the MQM
gathering
and inflated its numbers.
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STORIES ABOUT TALIBAN ATROCITIES AGAINST WOMEN ARE FABRICATIONS. HERE
IS THE
EVIDENCE FROM THE TIME THIS CAMPAIGN BEGAN IN A JEWISH PAPER in
Baltimore in
JULY 2000
Subj: Fabrications of anti-Taliban Propaganda Uncovered
Date: 07/09/00
To: letters@baltsun.com
Editor
The Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
Dear editor:
I am concerned about your ongoing campaign against the oppressed
Muslims of
the world. During the month of June you published two articles against
Afghanistan that could have been published only by an editor whose
knowledge
of Islam and Afghanistan is ZERO.
The first article on June 11, 2000 (by Lauren Goodsmith) was headlined
in 40
point bold letters across four columns: TALIBAN'S YOKE CRUSHES WOMEN
with a
subheading which stated UNDER ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS CONTROLLING
AFGHANISTAN,
WOMEN ARE DENIED EVEN THE MOST BASIC OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
The article was supported by three photographs (two of them 6 inches by
8
inches) of Afghan women in body-shrouding "burqas". Two of these
photos,
owing to copyright laws, gave you the lie and showed you up for the
fabricators you are. The copyright information says in small print:
"Larry C.
Price/Sun file 1990." As Goodsmith's story points out "the militia
group
known as the Taliban SEIZED CONTROL IN 1996."
Thus your paper is trying to convict the Taliban with photos which were
taken
10 years before the publication of your story and 6 years before the
Taliban
took over.
You have published the story as if it is an eyewitness account, but the
entire first page gives no source for the vituperation. Only towards
the end
of the continuation of the story in the inside page does one get the
source:
It is a group of Communist women who call themselves "Revolutionary
Association of the Women of Afghanistan" (RAWA). Two of these women
wore
"burqas" and demonstrated in front of the White House in April.
Goodsmith calls this protest by two Communist women "a rally." Can a
protest
by two persons be called a "rally" by any twist of the English
language?
And you so much wanted to publish against Afghanistan, that two months
after
the "rally" you gave it this massive coverage.
(RAWA has a web site, a sickening mess of lies and fabrications, about
the
suffering of women in Afghanistan, without any references to dates,
places,
persons or any other possibility of verification.)
No Afghan calls himself "revolutionary" owing to the tremendous
suffering
imposed by the Soviet "revolutionaries" on Afghanistan. The Soviets,
with
their communist allies, like RAWA, inflicted ONE MILLION deaths on the
people
of Afghanistan, a higher death ratio than that inflicted by the Nazis
on
Russia during World War II.
These "revolutionary" women are from the Khalq and Parcham factions of
Afghan
Communists. They were taught to hate their people. Khalqis had to
literally
WALK on the QUR'AN to be granted membership. (See "Afghanistan Under
the Red
Flag" by Robert Neumann, American Foreign Policy Institute, 1979).
Under
Communist rule, the Kabul regime used to put out propaganda similiar to
what
RAWA gave to your Goodsmith.
These chadris and burqas are common to some urban areas of
Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. They are part of the
culture.
One does not have to agree with the culture (I don't) to know that it
has
nothing to do with the "TALIBAN'S YOKE." One might as well go to
Daytona
Beach, take photographs of the bikini clad women in their disgusting
thousands and then claim that American women are immoral and shameless.
Not:
that's just the culture!
One does not "liberate" Afghan women by taking them out of
burqas,
removing their headcovers and putting them into skirts. Jan Goodwin in
her
book on Afghanistan Caught in the Crossfire has an interesting photo of
Communist Afghan militia women in Kabul lifting a Muslim woman's burqa
on the
pretense of finding out if one of the mujahideen was lurking there.
(Muslim
women supported the armed struggle with their lives.) The Communist
occupiers
wore skirts and uncovered their heads. The lesson of Afghanistan
(written
with the blood of a million martyrs) is that one does not become free
by
becoming westernized.
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Your second article, dated June 23, 2000, "Quiet subversion
by
Afghans" written by Karen Mazurkewich is even more absurd. This woman
actually went to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan to write against the
Taliban. She
didn't have the honesty to admit that if the Taliban had been against
women,
they wouldn't have allowed her to be galivanting all over their
territory
ALONE.
She has the temerity to publish a photo of Afghan women with
uncovered faces undergoing education while claiming that the education
is
"secret" and the Taliban are against it. How dishonest can she be when
she
admits in the same article that she was going around with a
"Taliban-appointed translator." Thus a Taliban man was telling all that
she
"found out"!
Compare what she wrote about the Taliban soldiers with what many
others
have written over the last two decades about Afghan fighters. These are
easy-going Muslim men who are great fighters but definitely not tyrants
or
crazy extremists. She refers to the "heavily armed Taliban sentries"
and
when they do not mistreat her and do not confiscate her film, she
claims they
are turning against Taliban rule! She admits that the Taliban have
"allowed a
handful of female doctors and nurses to work in segregated hospitals."
Her comments are extremely unfair because she leaves out the
fact
that doctors, male or female, are in short supply in Afghanistan. Also,
Afghan women, like most Muslim women, prefer to be touched by female
doctors
than by males. (I would say that is true of many good Christian and
Jewish
women in America too.)
The horror stories about Taliban rule have only this much basis
in
fact: When the Taliban took Kabul, they destroyed the bottles of wine
found
there and imposed strict restrictions on women's movement in the
streets.
Historically Kabul has been the center of Afghan Communism. From here
the
waves of repression were launched at the homes, families and mosques of
the
Afghan people. Kabul radio kept up a non-stop barrage of lies and
disinformation against Islam and the freedom-loving people of
Afghanistan.
After the fall of Kabul to Prof. Rabbani, the Kabuli
Communists
were not punished because Engr. Hikmatyar's forces were knocking at
the
door. Thus the punishment for the Communists came only with the fall of
Kabul
to the Taliban. They were extra-strict with those "revolutionary"
(actually
godless anti-people) women. However, comparison with other occupations
of
enemy cities in recent history (Berlin by the Russians, Nuremburg by
the
Americans, Jerusalem by the Zionists, Algiers by the French, Delhi by
the
British 1857, Khartoum under the Mahdi by the British, Tripoli by the
Italians) indicates that the Taliban have been very civilized and
well-behaved. Even the friendly presence of American troops in Saigon
turned
that city into a vast brothel.
All that the enemy population's women in Kabul had to do was
wear the
burqa and they were safe from all molestation.
I would suggest that Goodsmith and Mazurkewich look to the
condition of
women in America and try to win safe streets for women in major
metropolises
after 12 am, rather than going off into nations where they simply are
at sea.
By the way, what is the religion of "Karen" and "Lauren"? When
they
attack other people's religion, should they not in all honesty reveal
their
own? I suspect they belong to the Tribe which controls most of
America's
"liberal" media.
Sincerely
Kaukab Siddique, Ph.D
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Allah hu! Allah hu! la illaha illa hu!
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Urdu language chants:
Meri aan, teri aan: TAALIBAN, TAALIBAN
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yahood-o-hunood ka aik jawab: al-jihaad, a-jihaad
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Pakistan's leading {armed} Kashmir-liberation movement, Lashkare Taiba,
has
published an important Islamic ruling against cooperation with the
kuffar who
are building up forces to attack Afghanistan. We'll bring to you with
our
next posting.
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2001-11-07 Wed 13:15ct